The stars of the Vintiöt series were on board Samuli Edelmann.
The Vintiöt sketch series was performed between 1994 and 1995. Jonna Öhrnberg
Actor Kari Hietalahti goes Star -scale factoryin the new episode of the podcast through the series from the 90s, which ended with Samuli Edelmann, who was known as an actor and singer, jumped from the ship’s deck to the sea.
At the time of events in August 1995 Buzz-The team in the series was at the Viking Line Cinderella. Hietalahti says that after the show, the shipping company let the team spend time in staff recreational facilities.
At the harbor of Tallinn, the men watched the flange of the boat and joked about how to jump over it.
– Then we saw that the bar lights burned in the port of Tallinn. That it would be nice to go to the bar, what if you jumped and swim there. It would leave the rope hanging here and then rise back along the rope, says Hietalahti that the men were wondering.
The men wondered for a moment who would dare to try the plan, and eventually Edelmann decided to try it.
– It jumped and it was a really great jump, says Hietalahti.
After the rapture, Hietalahti says that there was a problem.
– That jump went really well, but after that there will be the problem with how to get it up.
A group of men says they tried to lift Edelmann from the sea, wrapped in a rope, but the company failed completely.
– After all, that wet Samuli doesn’t rise from there.
At this point, the staff arrived at the scene, and Edelmann was finally raised on the back cover with a car crane.
– As far as I remember, he still shouted, “I’ll come back to the mess, order me ready Gin & Tonic,” and the staff took him with the neck and took him better, Hietalahti assures him that the situation has gone.
Edelmann has opened the background of that rally in his biography. Pete anikari
In addition to Hietalahti and Edelmann, Santeri Kinnunen, Niko Saarela, Janus Hanski, Jussi Chydenius and Juha Veijonen played in the Vintiö. The series was directed by Aleksi Mäkelä and produced by Markus Selin. Santeri Kinnunen was not on the trip at the time of the famous event, but was located by Jani Volanen.
Over the years, many different versions of this known event have moved. Samuli Edelmann himself also said in 2021 in his biography Samuli – from darkness to light (Otava), your own version of the situation.
Hietalahti, Hanski and Edelmann were hard drunk, and from the whim they decided to pull a long stick: the shortest stick would jump into the sea.
The shortest stick stayed at Edelmann.
The evening of August had changed overnight in the Gulf of Finland. Samuli ran to M/S Cinderella’s back deck, climbing, despite his whimsical drunkards, he was buzzing over the railing and jumping into the sea. The rejoicing of intoxicants turned into a dark horror. The sounds heard from the night: “Fuck does it jump right?” “Search for help! Man over the side!”
Edelmann, who was drunk, fell ten meters directly into the sea.
When he got to the surface, he rushed water out of his lungs and was floating, waiting for help. He had just avoided death. The ship’s staff rescued Samul back on the ship and delivered the star’s straight head to survive.
Edelmann got a gate ban on the Cinderella ship, but according to the book, he did not want to follow the news or consider it any more, as he considered what happened only as a “stupid game.”
– I got a terrible depression from my toys. It felt like the whole circus was going to hell. Join and frankly, I applied for destruction, Edelmann commented later to Iltalehti.
– I’m grateful for being alive. In retrospect, I thought I guess I had some kind of protection angel that helped in that situation.
Edelmann said in an interview with Iltalehti at the time that the same should never happen again.
– I apologize to everyone about this act.
Italics are direct quotes Written by Johannes Lahtela Samuli – From Darkness to Light (Otava) from a biography book. The book was published in 2021.